Tag: Parody

A musical video by an Iraqi rapper calling out the US on its abuses at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in the war-ravaged country following the 2003 invasion has gone viral, racking up over 500,000 views. The video was filmed by rapper I-NZ as another parody of Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America.’ While Gambino took on […]

Wiki Commons A spokesperson for the Olive Garden parent company, Darden Restaurants, denied that it sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Seinfeld parody account on Friday. The apparently fake letter demanded that the account @Seinfeld2000 remove an earlier tweet that said, “respect to Olive Garden for no longer selling AR-15s at all their locations.” It […]

Listen up suckas, a Black Dynamite sequel is on its way. But here’s the catch: it won’t exactly feature Black Dynamite. Black Dynamite himself, Michael Jai White, announced that the next film he’s starring in is called Outlaw Johnny Black, a gun-slinging Western comedy that will act as a semi-sequel to Black Dynamite. And there’s already a teaser […]

Resolving to laugh more in 2018? Amazon is looking to get your new year started off right, then. The streaming service has tapped former SNL castmates Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon to star in a send-up of local TV coverage of holiday parades: The 2018 Rose Parade Hosted by Cord & Tish, with Ferrell and Shannon playing […]

Enlarge / Facebook is a popular social media site you may have heard about. (credit: Dan Kitwood / Getty Images) A 28-year-old Ohio man is suing police for arresting him and putting him on trial for felony charges in connection to a fake Facebook page he created. The Facebook page mocked the local police department. […]

Enlarge / Miami Beach: home of beautiful beaches and thin-skinned police officers. (credit: danielvalle5) A Miami Beach man is facing criminal charges after he created a parody account purporting to be Ernesto Rodriguez, a spokesman for the Miami Beach Police Department. The defendant, Ernesto Orsetti, is charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer, a third-degree felony, […]

The Simpsons are reviving their collaboration with renowned science fiction and horror writer Neil Gaiman for the show’s annual “Treehouse of Horror” episode in a positively purr-fect partnership. But instead of a cameo from an animated version of the author himself, Gaiman will be voicing a character from a familiar story of his. “Treehouse of Horror” […]

If you were wondering why the next Vampire Weekend album is taking so long, now you have your answer. It seems lead singer Ezra Koenig has been busy working on an anime with his celeb pals. We heard rumblings about it in the past (from Jude Law and Koenig) and now we’re getting the first […]

NBC Alec Baldwin reprised his parody of President Donald Trump in a sketch depicting Trump’s raucous Phoenix, Arizona, rally. Baldwin’s Trump opened the sketch lamenting about the fallout surrounding the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. “As we all know, there was a tragic victim that came out of Charlottesville — me,” Baldwin quipped. “Folks, […]

Published time: 31 Jul, 2017 15:39 Twitter has suspended a McDonald’s parody account after a string of suicidal messages posted to its timeline inspired a wave of responses from users who believed the account to be real. The unverified @Mc_DonaldsHK account, which claimed to be the official feed of McDonald’s Hong Kong, first began tweeting […]